Blood is Thicker Than Water
Humans are biologically clannish and tribal, it is the Achilles heel of our species. America is our tribe, and the news media, consisting mostly of humans, is not going to go against the tribe. The same is true of every American politician. They wear an American flag lapel pin for a reason -- it is flashing the gang colors of America. While tribes, gangs and clans can do awful things, those in the middle, or the matrix, still show allegiance, which is why so many were outraged that Kaepernick took a knee. He took a stand above and outside the tribe.
Tribalism knows no political bounds, both parties and independents are fiercely tribal. While Sanders and Warren have polices I disagree with, I appreciated the fact that they don't wear an American flag lapel pin, which of course, opens them to claims that they are unpatriotic and un-American and not part of the tribe; on the other hand, their campaign rallies, like all others, are drenched in American flags and are wet with nationalism.
Outcomes of American Tribalism
It was painful to realize that this story could be equally true if we substituted American for Israeli and Afghanistan for Palestine. Perhaps this is why the US government is sympathetic to occupiers. Birds of a feather ...
People all over the world pay a price, often the price of life, for the gang affiliation of Americans.
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